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Watch this: Russia's 2014 oil production hits post-Soviet high 10.58 million barrels per day. Automakers General Motors' and Volkswagen Group of America's wishes for a Happy New Year include a recall of thousands of full-size trucks, sport utility vehicles and automobiles. Some Pennsylvania lawmakers are floating bills aimed at raising business taxes to close an estimated $2 billion state budget deficit. The Morning Call/CareerBuilder Career Fair is scheduled for Jan. 13 at Sands Bethlehem Event Center. Minimum-wage earners in New Jersey received a slight pay raise with the new year. Movie box office revenue fell about 5 percent in 2014 to $10.2 billion, but industry experts...

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Watch this: Russia's 2014 oil production hits post-Soviet high 10.58 million barrels per day. Automakers General Motors' and Volkswagen Group of America's wishes for a Happy New Year include a recall of thousands of full-size tr

WASHINGTON — Seven of the 30 largest U.S. corporations paid more money to their chief executive officers last year than they paid in U.S. federal income taxes, according to a study released Tuesday that was disputed by at least one of the companies.
Amid...

Lawyering-up used to be a sign of guilt. Hiring lawyers to try to pre-empt a raft of independent investigations is a sign of futility.Last Thursday, we got the results of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's inquiry into himself; General Motors has just...

General Motors has talked a lot lately about how sorry it is for being slow to recall vehicles for potentially deadly defects and how concerned it is about customer safety.
Yet until the Watchdog drove onto the scene, Jeniffer Montero couldn't get a...

When we purchase a product such as a car or major appliance, we expect it to work as intended, to be reliable, to look attractive and above all to be safe. We expect the product to be rugged and of robust design and to withstand a certain amount of...

If you're spending your long holiday weekend strolling through used car lots, here's something else to ask your salesman while you're kicking the tires.
Is this car under any recalls?
You'd think a dealer would have to fix a recall defect on a used...

Do you love cars? Do you love automotive muscle? Not far from Allentown (100 miles) there will be three huge car shows sponsored by Carlisle Events -- one each for Ford, Chrysler and GM vehicles of all types and stripes."We're ecstatic with the...

Anticipating a hard-fought general election battle in Pennsylvania, the Obama campaign launched what its calling its “truth team” on Thursday.The aim is to fight back against Republican attacks by employing a combination of Internet and social media...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reports that lower bumpers on SUVs and pickup trucks in the past few years has helped reduce the risk of injury to people in cars that crash with the larger, heavier vehicles. In addition to the basic laws of physics

PPL Electric Utilities is one of 28 member utility companies participating in a test program involving the Chevrolet Volt, General Motors' new hybrid-electric car, according to officials from parent PPL Corp. The Electric Power Research Institute, a trade orga

When Fred Rentchler's father got started in the car business in 1973 in Slatington, he sold only Plymouths and Chryslers.
That meant mostly sedans.
Today, the dealership sells four different brands, offering everything from the fuel-efficient Neon...

DETROIT Sales of the F-Series were down 1 percent in February, but Ford executives say dealers should be fully stocked by the end of June as a second pickup assembly plant nears completion of its changeover to the 2015 model. The F-150 is Ford's...

February threw snowstorms and other roadblocks at the auto industry, but U.S. sales of new cars and trucks are still poised to hit their highest level in more than a decade this year. Freezing temperatures, disruptions at West Coast ports and rising gas...

Russia's sinking economy is putting up a major hurdle for Ford Motor Co. and General Motors as the U.S. automakers fight to return to profitability in Europe after years of losses. Karl-Thomas Neumann, CEO of GM's Adam Opel GmbH subsidiary, said at the...

DETROIT General Motors will stop making cars in Indonesia on its own, ending production of the Chevrolet Sonic in Thailand, and is withdrawing from a low-emission vehicle program launched by the Thai government. But GM and two of its Chinese...

DETROIT As the media frenzy builds surrounding a possible Apple electric car by 2020 there are substantial engineering, logistical and manufacturing hurdles that the consumer electronics giant must overcome, according to experts familiar with the worlds...

WASHINGTON A Senate committee on Thursday approved legislation that would pay awards to employees and contractors who tip off the federal government about motor vehicle defects or violations of law that may result in death or injury. The bill,...

Buick, the brand that once was the pace car for the drive to the senior center, has made a comeback by appealing to buyers not yet ready for retirement. U.S. sales rose 11 percent in 2014. In China, Buick's biggest market, sales gained almost 14...

DETROIT Lexus, Buick, Toyota and Cadillac captured the top four spots in J.D. Power and Associates' annual vehicle dependability study, which measures owner-reported problems in three-year-old vehicles. Breaking down the results by segment,...